Predictability of the NCEP-NCAR reanalysis model during austral summer

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3135-3152

  Nogués Paegle, Julia ^a   Mo, Kingtse C ^b   Paegle, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE;

EID: 0032898518     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<3135:POTNNR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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